ÿþ<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd"> <!--Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery! Website design freely adapted from kurtluther.com --> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en"> <head> <title>David M. Pimentel | library &amp; information science</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" /> <meta http-equiv="content-language" content="en" /> <meta name="description" content="David Pimentel is an information science &amp; technology Ph.D. candidate" /> <meta name="author" content="David M. Pimentel" /> <meta name="google-site-verification" content="WMoCaItWeOiO-bNdvGEZqIi_4FFjzqbj-W0ZOjMc1pE" /> <link href="http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Droid+Serif&amp;subset=latin" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /> <link href="/styles/lovely.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /> <link rel="image_src" href="http://pimentel.mysite.syr.edu/images/dmpheadshot1.png" /> </head> <body> <table> <tr> <td id="name"> <h1><a href="/">David <br />M. <br />Pimentel</a></h1> <p><a href="http://ischool.syr.edu/academics/doctoralprograms/PhD/" title="Ph.D. program">Information science &amp; technology</a><br /> Ph.D. candidate</p> <!-- <p><a href="mailto:pimentel@syr.edu" title="Email me">pimentel@syr.edu</a></p> --> <p><b>davidmp.com</b></p> </td> <td id="nav"> <ul> <li><a href="research.html" title="Research &amp; Writing">Research</a></li> <li><a href="teaching.html" title="Teaching &amp; Advising">Teaching</a></li> <li><a href="service.html" title="Service &amp; Activities">Service</a></li> <li><a href="bio.html" title="Brief Bio">Biography</a></li> <li><a href="contact.html" title="Contact information">Contact</a></li> <li><a href="/dmpimentel_cv.pdf" title="Curriculum Vit&aelig;">Vit&aelig; <img src="/images/pdf-tinyicon.png" title="PDF" border="0"></a></li> </ul> </td> <td id="content"> <p>I'm a Ph.D. candidate in the <a href="http://ischool.syr.edu" title="iSchool">School of Information Studies</a> at <a href="http://www.syracuse.edu" title="S.U.">Syracuse University</a>, working with my advisor <a href="http://ischool.syr.edu/facstaff/member.aspx?id=53" title="Barbara Hanna Kwasnik">Barbara Kwa[nik</a>.</p> <p>My dissertation research considers the nature of <em>information-organizing practices in collaborative online environments</em>, using <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia" title="Wikipedia">Wikipedia</a> as a case study in emergent classifications. My interests in various forms of information &amp; knowledge representation are grounded in my professional experience with <a href="http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/alcts/resources/org/cat/catlibvalue.cfm" title="Value of Cataloging Librarians">library cataloging</a>.</p> <p>I am passionate about the potential of digital libraries to engage users in the evolving <a href="http://louisrosenfeld.com/home/bloug_archive/000330.html" title="Metadata Ecologies">metadata ecologies</a> of the 21st century: harnessing the power of people to collaboratively organize information in ways that are meaningful and not simply algorithmic. </td> <td id="sidebar"> <img src="/images/dmpheadshot1.png" alt="photo of David M. Pimentel"> <!--<h3>Upcoming conferences</h3> <ul> <li>February 8&ndash;11, 2011<br /><a href="http://www.ischools.org/iConference11/2011index/">iConference 2011</a> &#183; Seattle</li> </ul> --> </td> </tr> </table> </body> </html>